New findings: Eating more plant protein effectively reduces the risk of death

was recently published in the international magazine
In a study published in JAMAInternal Medicine
, researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital conducted a large study to reveal the effects of dietary proteins from different sources on the body, and found that high levels of protein intake from animal sources, particularly processed and unprocessed red meat, were directly related to a higher risk of death in individuals, while high levels of protein from implanted sources were directly related to a lower risk of individual death.Researcher
Mingyang Song
said: 'Overall, our study reveals the long-term health effects of different dietary protein sources, after the researchers focused on the effects of total protein intake on the body from a dietary perspective, and this study may have some significance for people's health, and can help optimize the current recommendations on protein intake in the diet, in fact, not only protein intake will affect the body's health, but also the long-term health of protein from different foods."some studies have shown that replacing carbohydrates with protein in the diet has some health benefits, including weight management, lower blood pressure and other risks of cardiovascular disease, but few studies have analyzed proteins from specific sources.For the current study, researchers analyzed data from the
HEALTH Research Centre (
NHS
) and the
HPFS
, in which researchers obtained
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Health data for more than
17,000 participants since the 80s
, and researchers completed a health questionnaire about people's overall health every two years, in which participants provided information about their diet, especially the type of food they consumed in the previous year.The researchers analyzed data from

<3> <8> participants for more than
30,
years, as well as data from the
HPFS
participants'
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study, which totaled more than
3.
5 million people per year and more than


36,000 participants died, of whom about
9,000,
developed cardiovascular disease, about
13
,000 developed cancer and
14,000 died from other diseases
. When the researchers adjusted their lifestyle and other dietary risk factors, they found a weak correlation between high levels of protein intake from animal sources and increased individual mortality, such as meat, eggs, or milk, while high intakes of protein from plant sources were directly associated with a lower individual risk of death, such as grains, legumes, nuts, and so on.In-depth analysis, the researchers said that the association between animal protein intake and an increased risk of individual death applied only to individuals with at least one unhealthy lifestyle, such as obesity, heavy, heavy drinking, smoking, or lack of exercise;researcher
Song
said: 'Although we found a weak correlation between the two in healthy lifestyle groups, we did not want this relationship to disappear completely, and when we looked at the data, we found that unhealthy lifestyles were unhealthy when animal protein intake levels were similar. Participants tended to consume more red meat, eggs and high-fat dairy products, while participants in healthy lifestyles consumed more fish and poultry, so the researchers speculated that animal proteins from different sources may have more pronounced results in unhealthy lifestyle study groups.This study suggests that people should consider eating more plant proteins than animal proteins, and that if animal proteins are to be ingested, it is best to choose fish and chicken, between them, and later researchers need to do more in-depth research to explain the molecular mechanisms behind the effects of plant and animal protein sources on the overall health of the body.